CNAS Undergraduate Research Symposium
Call For Presentations
Date: The 2024 CNAS Undergraduate Research Symposium Poster session took place on Thursday, April 25, 2024
About the event
All current CNAS undergraduate students and December 2023 graduates are invited to submit a poster for the CNAS Undergraduate Research Symposium.
Presentations are refereed, and awards are given for first place ($100) and second place ($50) for each CNAS department and the cooperative engineering program.
Contact your advisor for abstract submission instructions information or see the Poster Presentation Guidelines link above
Please submit your abstract to Gale Lininger, galelininger@missouristate.edu
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Archive of results
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2018
2024 Winners
Biology: Ecology, Wildlife and Conservation
1st Place: Tabitha Moul, Moth Castagna, Maggy Mayberry, Krista Cockrum, Kendra Edge, James Bynum,
Avery Russell
YOU'RE POLLEN MY LEG! POLLEN SPECIALIZATION VARIES LITTLE ACROSS BUMBLE BEE SPECIES
AND PRAIRIES
Faculty Advisor: Avery Russell
2nd Place: Leo Carpenter
A NEW SPECIES OF HESPEROCHERNES (PSEUDOSCORPIONES: CHERNETIDAE) IN OREGON FROM BURROWS
OF MOUNTAIN BEAVER (MAMMALIA: APLODONTIDAE: APLODONTIA RUFA)
Faculty Advisor: Charles D. R. Stephen
Biology: Cellular, Microbiology and Genetics
1st Place: Emma Goodwyn, Sophia Antonopoulos
IDENTIFICATION OF SPRING SEASON FRESHWATER BIOFOULING ORGANISMS ON FLEXIBLE SENSOR
SUBSTRATES
Faculty Advisor: Paul Durham
2nd Place: Daniela Silva Torres, Sophia Antonopoulos
METHOD FOR CRYOPRESERVATION OF SPINAL CORD TISSUE FOR ESTABLISHING PRIMARY CULTURES
OF NEURONS AND GLIA
Faculty Advisor: Paul Durham
Chemistry and Biochemistry
1st Place: Victoria Ogbeifun, Caitlin M. Padgett & Natasha DeVore
PROTEIN CHARACTERIZATION AND CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF YELLOW THERMOSTABLE PROTEIN (YTP)
Q66E E148D
Faculty Advisor: Natasha DeVore
2nd Place: Clayton Frazier, Santimukul Santra, Paris Yates, Elizabeth Bowie, Megan Liermann,
David Johnson and Tuhina Banerjee
MEMBRANE FUSION INTERACTIONS OF ENVELOPED VIRUSES USING MAGNETICALLY-LABELED LIPOSOMES
Faculty Advisor: Tuhina Banerjee
Computer Science
1st Place: Tony Enrique Astuhuaman Davila
INCREASING EXPLAINABILITY OF DIMENSION REDUCTION METHODS FOR MACHINE LEARNING OUTCOMES
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Tayo Obafemi-Ajayi
2nd Place: Dorian Morrissey
UAV ATTACKS DETECTION USING DEEP LEARNING
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mohammed Yassine Belkhouche
Cooperative Engineering
1st Place: Jack Stone, Braxton Hall, Nicholas Winn, Nicholas Stogsdill
AUTOMATED LOAD FRAME
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Matthew Pierson and Dr. Rohit Dua
2nd Place: Nathaniel Van Devender, Michael Hardesty, Aaron Frater, Gabriel Fedynich
PADDLE OBSOLESCENT NOVELTY KNOCK-OFF (PONK)
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Rohit Dua
Geology
1st Place: Madalyn Bass
EVOLUTION OF PLANT HARDINESS ZONES IN MISSOURI 1946 – 2015
Faculty Advisor: Toby Dogwiler
Geography, Geospatial and Planning
1st Place: Sarah Tuck
NOT TOO SMALL TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE: NATURAL RESOURCE EDUCATION IN ZAMBIAN PRIMARY
SCHOOLS
Faculty Advisor: Asif Ishtiaque
2nd Place: Ryan Griffin, Morgan Harriman, Ben Holland
NAVIGATING CHANGE: UNDERSTANDING PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF URBAN REDEVELOPMENT AT A BUSY
STREET CORNER OF A HISTORIC NEIGHBORHOOD
Faculty Advisor: Ron Malega
Mathematics
1st Place: Rachel Lee
THE PRODUCT OF THE CHROMATIC NUMBER AND INDEPENDENCE NUMBER OF A GRAPH
Faculty advisor: Dr. Les Reid
2nd Place: Christopher Housholder
EXPLICIT REPEATED DOT PRODUCT TREE CONSTRUCTIONS
Faculty Advisor: Steven Senger
Physics, Astronomy and Materials Science
1st Place: Simarpreet K. Girn, Sarah J. Morrison, Caroline Witt, Mateo E. Guerra Toro
OUTCOMES OF SUPER-EARTH FORMATION IN THE PRESENCE OF A JUPITER-LIKE PLANET
Faculty Advisor: Sarah Morrison
2nd Place: Yashasvi Moon
SOUTH POLE TELESCOPE’S DUTY CYCLE FOR TRANSIENT SCIENCE
Faculty Advisor: Prof. Joaquin Vieira (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)